Tobacco-pipe filler.



A, A. HAUERBACH & H. G. ALLAN.

TOBACCO PIPE FILLER.

APPLICATION FlLED NOV. 19, 1914.

1,163,751. A Patented Dec. 14, 1915.

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ARTHUR A. I-IAITERBACH AND HUGH Gr. ALLAN, OF STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA.

TOBACCO-PIPE FILLER.

Specificationbf Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 14, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ARTHUR A. HAUE men, a citizen of the United States,and HUGH G. ALLAN, a subject of Great Britain, both residing atStockton, in the county of San Joaquin, State of California, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Tobacco-Pipe Fillers;and We do declare the following to be a clear, full, and exactdescription of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the artto which it appcrtains to make and use the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, and to the cha 'acters of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this application.

This invention relates to improvements in a means and apparatus for usein connection with filling tobacco pipes with tobacco, the object of theinvention being to produce an instrument by the use of which a pipe fullof tobacco may be measured in the tobacco containing receptacle and fromthere carried and disposed or filled into the pipe in a neat and cleanmanner without any loss of the tobacco or any necessity of handling thesame by the smoker. The instrument is thus both an economical andsanitary device, as will appear.

A. further object of the invention is to produce a simple andinexpensive device and yet one which will be exceedingly effective forthe purposes for which it is designed.

These objects, we accomplish by means of such structure and relativearrangement of the parts as will fully appear by a perusal of thefollowing specification and claims.

()n the drawings, similar characters of reference indicate correspondingparts in the several views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the device. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of thesame taken on a line XX of Fig. 1.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on thedrawings, the numeral 1 designates the handle of the instrument which ispreferably tubular and provided with an elongated slot 2 near one end.Screwed into the other end is a filler bowl 3 which is preferablycylindrical in shape and open at its outer end and designed as a sort ofa hollow auger, the interior walls of which, as at 4, are knurled orroughened as shown. Mounted within the hollow handle 1 is a piston 5provided taining receptacle and given a couple of turns. This auger-likeconstruction then digs into the tobacco which fills into the interior ofthe member 3 and by reason of its texture will pack into the said member3, this packing tendency being aided by reason of the roughened sides 4.When the member 3 is full of tobacco, the instrument is taken from thereceptacle and placed in the bowl of the pipe and the finger member 6 isthen operated to move the piston 5 against the spring 9, which actionoperates the plunger 8 to move against the tobacco in the member 3 andforce it in a neat and compact mold into the bowl of the pipe. Upon therelease of the member 6, the spring 9 returns the parts to normalposition. The said plunger 8 is slightly convex, as shown in Fig. 2, sothat when it tamps the tobacco, it will form the upper part of suchtamped tobacco in sort of a concave shape so that when a match isapplied to the same and it tends to loosen up as is the usual case, itwill merely fill into the concave portion without loosening above thetop edge of the pipe resulting in its loss, as is a very commonoccurrence.

The movement of the member 6 is limited by the length of the slot 2 sothat the plunger 8 will merely move the length of the interior of themember 3.

From the foregoing description it will readily appear that we haveproduced an instrument for filling tobacco into pipes which will effecta saving of the tobacco and at the same time prevent the handling of thetobacco in an unsanitary manner. It will further be seen that we haveproduced such a device as substantially fulfils the objects of theinvention as set forth herein.

While this specification sets forth in de tail the present and preferredconstruction of the device, still in practice, such deviations from suchdetail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spiritfiller bowl and havinga stem projecting into said hollow handle member,and a finger member on said plunger projecting through said slot, asdescribed.

2. A device of the character described comprising a tubular handlemember closed at its upper end and provided with a slot in its side, afiller bowl secured in the other Copies of this patent may be obtainedfor five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

end of said handle member, said filler bowl being open at one end, theedge of said open end being sharpand formed in the shape of an auger, aplunger member in said filler bowl, a stem 011 said plunger projectinginto said tubular member, a piston in said tubular member connected withsaid stem, a finger member ,on said piston proeoting through said slot,and a spring interposed between said piston and said filler Washington,D. C.

